In the astronomical sense: Mercury is shy. It never strays more than about 28° from the Sun, so in a natal chart it can only ever be in conjunction with our Sun. No oppositions, no squares, no dramatic stand-offs across...
A Saturn-colored relationship does brickwork. Saturn says, “If you’re going to love, you’re going to learn how to show up on time, tell the truth, and keep going even when the fun evaporates.” When someone’s Saturn touches your personal planets in Continue reading Saturn in Synastry: The Saturn Partner’s Inner World
When progressed Jupiter changes signs, it’s rare because Jupiter moves slow. If it’s entering Virgo, you’re not imagining an internal click. Something has changed. When Jupiter was in Leo, growth came through expression, confidence, creativity, being seen. Faith expanded through...
When Mercury is opposite Mars in synastry, there is a clash between how one thinks and speaks (Mercury) and how the other acts, asserts, and fights for space (Mars). This aspect sets up a live wire. The Mercury person says: Continue reading Mercury Opposite Mars Synastry
When transiting Uranus aspects the Sun, life is going to change. “Expect the unexpected” may sound like a horoscope cliche for the this Uranian movement, but clichés survive because they’re accurate. It can be a time of disruption as liberation....
Wherever Neptune sits in your chart, it casts a silvery mist over this domain. We seek ease, peace, beauty – sometimes through art, sometimes through fantasy, and, if we’re not careful, sometimes through substances or illusions. It’s the part of...
With Mars trine Uranus in a natal chart, we get an individual who doesn’t just charge ahead, they zigzag forward with unpredictability and originality. You don’t push for change in a forceful way, you assert yourself in a way that says, Continue reading Mars Trine Uranus Natal Aspect
When the Sun (our I AM) gets cozy with the Moon (our I FEEL), what we’re really witnessing is identity and emotion are no longer two distant planets in your internal solar system, they’re bound together. Every time you try...
The Sun is the symbol of identity, direction, and self-expression, but it is submerged in the ocean of the 12th house. It doesn’t disappear, it guides you from within. This placement often gives the sense that the usual rules of selfhood...
Mars square Neptune in synastry isn’t your light-and-fluffy, moon-kissed starry-eyed romance aspect. No, no – this one’s a proper trip. An entanglement wrapped in mystery, projection, passion, and potential spiritual confusion. Mars wants action, direction, and honesty. He’s primal, focused, Continue reading Mars Square Neptune Synastry
Transiting Neptune aspecting Uranus is electrifying and ever so slightly unhinged. It is the Collective Dreamquake. Neptune is the misty mystic: it dissolves boundaries, lulls the ego into dreams, dances in a cloud of incense and illusion. It says, “We...
The Sun in the 11th house is sitting in a communal scene. The 11th house is the realm of society’s dreams, aspirations, friendships, and radical revolutions. This isn’t your average ego trip. This is the Sun saying, “Right, how can...